Polymer composites made functional and customizable: new materials for real-life applications
The academic and industrial interest in semiconducting polymer composites is rising, owing to the unique combination of easy and low-cost processability and versatility of these materials
This comprehensive book provides broad coverage addressing the principles of semiconducting polymer blends such as morphology, energetics and processing as well as the wide range of applications in optics, electronics and optoelectronics.
Fostering interdisciplinary research, the book combines the fields of polymer composites and functional polymers, allowing for cross-fertilization between these two scientific communities.
List of Contributors XV
Preface XXI
1 Solubility, Miscibility, and the Impact on Solid-State Morphology 1
Florian Machui and Christoph J. Brabec
2 Nanoscale Morphological Characterization for Semiconductive Polymer Blends 39
Joachim Loos
3 Energy Level Alignment at Semiconductive Polymer Interfaces: Correlating Electronic Energy Levels and Electrical Conductivity 65
Nobuo Ueno
4 Energy and Charge transfer 107
Ralf Mauer, Ian A. Howard and Frédéric Laquai
5 Percolation Theory and Its Application in Electrically Conducting Materials 145
Isaac Balberg
6 Processing Technologies of Semiconducting Polymer Composite Thin Films for Photovoltaic Cell Applications 171
Hui Joon Park and L. Jay Guo
7 Thin-Film Transistors Based on Polythiophene/Insulating Polymer Composites with Enhanced Charge Transport 191
Longzhen Qiu, Xiaohong Wang and Kilwon Cho
8 Semiconducting Organic Molecule./Polymer Composites for Thin-Film Transistors 219
Jeremy N. Smith, John G. Labram and Thomas D. Anthopoulos
9 Enhanced Electrical Conductivity of Polythiophene/Insulating Polymer Composite and Its Morphological Requirement 251
Guanghao Lu and Xiaonlu Yang
10 Intrinsically Conducting Polymers and Their Composites for Anticorrosion and Antistatic Applications 269
Yingping Li and Xianhong Wang
11 Conjugated-Insulating Bloack Copolymers: Synthesis, Morphology, and Electronic Properties 299
Dahlia Haynes, Mihaela C. Stefan and Richard D. McCullough
12 Fullerene/Conjugated Polymer Composite for the State-of-the-Art Polymer Solar Cells 331
Wanli Ma
13 Semiconducting Nanocrystal/Conjugated Polymer Composites for Applications in Hybrid Polymer Solar Cells 361
Michael Krueger, Michael Eck, Yunfei Zhou and Frank-Stefan Riehle
14 Conjugated Polymer Blends: Toward All-Polymer Solar Cells 399
Christopher R. McNeil
15 Conjugated Polymer Composites and Copolymers for Light-Emitting Diodes and Laser 427
Thien Phap Nguyen and Pascale Jolinat
16 Semiconducting Polymer Composite Based Bipolar Transistors 457
Claudia Piliego, Krisztina Szendrel and Maria Antoinietta Loi
17 Nanostructured Conducting Polymers for Sensor Development 489
Yen Wei, Meixang Wan, Ten-Chin Wen, Tang-Kuei Chang, Gaoquan Shi, Hongxu Qi, Lei Tao, Ester Segal and Moshe Narkis
Index 523
Overview
Polymer composites made functional and customizable: new materials for real-life applications
The academic and industrial interest in semiconducting polymer composites is rising, owing to the unique combination of easy and low-cost processability and versatility of these materials
This comprehensive book provides broad coverage addressing the principles of semiconducting polymer blends such as morphology, ...